Exercise 1 - Cartoon Physics - Dropping Balls

This is an exercise to show the difference between a cartoony versus physics laws based bouncing balls. Both of them are using the same amount of time (1 second) but there are differences in spacing as well in squashing and stretching or in exaggeration.

To obtain a natural feeling of a dropping ball it is needed to use a minimum squash and stretch just to show that the ball is made of a bouncing material (in this case more like a basketball type). To obtain a cartoony feeling there are needed some exaggerations to make the ball look like it is alive and when is squashing that much on the floor it brings an impression of pushing like an anticipation to jump. Because of that I have made the cartoony ball to spend more time on the floor than the real ball which is just bouncing back because of the impact.

Although, even the squash and stretch may seem a little bit too exaggerated on both balls, I think that in animation we need to push things enough to make them interesting for the eye, and to make them easy to notice.